Clothes-pin.



PATENTED JULY 4, 1905.

M. F. GRUBBS.

CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 3, 1904.

Inventor.

Hittomegs Witnesse Nirno STATES Patented July 4, 1905.

MARION F. GRUBBS, OF OENAVILLE, TEXAS.

CLOTHES-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,654, dated July 4,1905.

Application filed October 3, 1904. Serial No. 226.990.

To all 1077 0111 it'may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARION F. GRUBBs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oenaville, in the county of Bell and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Clothes-Pin, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to clothes-pins, and has for its object toproduce a simply-constructed and inexpensive device which will remainmovablyconnected to the clothes-line and adapted for ready clampingthereon to hold the clothes and yieldable when required.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature ofthe invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novelfeatures of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, andin which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters,is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the inventioncapable of carrying the same into practical operation, it beingunderstood that the invention is not necessarily limited thereto, asvarious changes in the shape, proportions, and general assemblage of theparts may be resorted to without departing from the principle of theinvention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure l is a perspective view of theimproved device. Fig. 2 is an end elevation, and Fig. 3 is a plan view,of the same.

The improved device is formed from a single length of wire, galvanizedsteel wire being preferred as being sufficiently resilient and free fromliability to corrode. Said wire is bent at one end to form a loop or eye10, which is downturned at approximately right angles to the body of thewire. The opposite end of the latter is bent or twisted to form twodownturned clamping-loops 12 and 13, disposed adjacent to one another inpractically the same plane, which is parallel to the plane in which theloop or eye 10 is disposed. The latter is for engagement with theclothes-line, a portion of which has been indicated at 11 in dottedlines in Fig. 1. The clamping-loops 12 The curvature of thisintermediate S-shaped portion may be diminished or increased, so as toincrease or diminish the distance between the loops 10 and 12 13.

In practice a number of these devices are slidably mounted upon theclothes-line by the eyes 10, and they will thus remain suspended in aconvenient position for use. To use the device, it is only necessary toraise the clamping members above the line and to compress them upon theline in contact with the clothes suspended thereon in the same manner asan ordinary clothes-pin. The spring-eyes, which are formed at the upperend of each of the clamping members, will cause said clamping members tobind upon the line with great tenacity, but without injury to theclothes, owing to the smooth surfaces of said clamping members. Thelatter being disposed in the same plane and in perfect alinement withone another are not liable to become twisted or distorted, the innersides of said clamping-loops being in contact with each other when thedevice is not in use, as will be plainly seen in Fig. 2 of the drawings,while when in use they will be spaced apart only by the thickness of theline and of the garments supported thereon, and then only by thethickness of the interposed material, which will thus be held upon theline with absolute security.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A clothes-pinconsisting of a body-wire having at one end a downturned line-engagingloop, and at its opposite end two downturned clamping-loops formed withspring-eyes at their upper ends and the terminal of one of saidspring-eyes being twisted upon the bodywire; said clamping-loops beinglocated adjacent to each other in practically the same plane with theirinner sicles normally contactmy own I have hereto affixed my signaturein ing with each other; and the body portion of the presence of twoWitnesses. the Wire intermediate the line-engaging loop and theclamping-loops, being bent in a plane 5 at approximately right angles tothe planes Witnesses;

of said loops. R. E. BURNS,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as THOMAS THOMPSON.

MARION F. GRUBBS.

